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Lambdas / functions are another common basis type


"Bees get jet lag"

That seems like a much simpler experiment than the previous ones!


On the other hand, the totality of experiments should have suggested that they likely can. You can keep trying to find better experiments, but if bees are defeating each one, your prior should be changing


Well, in 1929 they couldn't really get on a red-eye to New York ;)


And one still cannot in 2024 ;). Almost all red-eye flights go from east to west. There are none from Paris to NYC. There are some from America's west coast to Asia though, because those are super long flights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_flight


The press release has a strange title for new chips targeted at lower-end PCs (those without a dedicated GPU).


>> The press release has a strange title for new chips targeted at lower-end PCs

It's a pretty high-end CPU though, and the graphics support AV1 encode/decode. This would be perfect for software development, video production, or pretty much anything but high-end gaming.


True, I should have said "low-end gaming PCs"


By the looks of how deep they had to dig to get frame rates to show off, this chip struggles at almost any 3D game that's been made in the last few years. It's equivalent to a six year old mid-tier discreet GPU.


I bet it's big enough that it could also contain an SD card reader, which could be really useful


Another rule that git branches do not have: they don't have to have originally come from the same repo. You can pull a branch from a different project if you want to. (This is useful if you are trying to combine two repos while preserving history.)


I'm still sad that --sort-files makes ripgrep run in single-core mode. (I know you can't make --sort-files _free_ in multi-core mode, but it would still be faster than single-core)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/152


The shell function from this comment works pretty well for me: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/152#issuecommen...


Seems like the issue pretty much covers this.




That gives some hope that Moore's law isn't quite dead yet.

That said, the score came from Geekbench, which I believe isn't considered to be very representative of real application performance.


Geekbench is not so bad, like Passmark or those SEO spam benchmark sites you see on Google.

But the best benchmark is always the apps you are CPU constrained in.


What are some of the criticisms against Passmark scores? I maintain some documentation that cites them as a basis for recommending PCs for specialized applications, so if that's a bad idea it'd be good to know.


There is some controversy over "fixing" the results in the past, as well as weird personal behavior from the owners: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/ykx4yd/i_knew_use...

But bottom line is you want a benchmark that represents your actual application rather than some unrelated synthetic test. I do like geekbench more because its a big bucket of "real" applications without the associated controversy, but its still less than ideal.


AFAIK, Passmark and UserBenchmark are not the same thing. UBM is the one that's so bad it's a meme.


Ah I think you are right, but still: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/fhzn0e/passmark_follow...

I remember controversy from both, but theres a lot of noise when I try to go back and look outside of Reddit (which is not always the most reliable source).


The app that stresses my CPU the most is Geekbench lol


mohrs law has been dramatically outpaced in the last 6 months are you serious?


I think there's at least 3 different dimensions here:

1. Comfort vs. Anxiety: how anxious does a particular interaction make you feel.

2. Introversion vs. Extroversion: are you more recharged or more drained by social interaction in general. (anxiety probably causes people to be more drained than they would otherwise - anxious people probably consider themselves more introverted than they actually are)

3. Awkward vs. Fluid: is handling a social situation correctly hard or automatic? (the expectation of being awkward increases anxiety; anxiety may increase awkwardness)

Some extra dimensions:

- Experience level in a given kind of social interaction

- How much social interaction someone "needs" (e.g. they might get recharged by being social, but not need much charging)


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